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My Interview with Enrico Casarosa
Director of the Disney short film "La Luna"
By: Rebecca Plaisance
There were many highlights of my trip to Pixar last month but I must say one of the most endearing and memorable moments was the chance to see the Oscar nominated short La Luna that will premier with Brave on June 22, 2012 and is now also available as a book.
This hauntingly sweet and moving short was written and directed by Enrico Casarosa. The group of bloggers that visited Pixar had the pleasure of sitting down with Enrico Casarosa. Here are some highlights of our interview with him.
When asked about the relationship portrayed between the grandfather, father and son in La Luna Enrico Casarosa gave us some insight into his upbringing and how it influenced the film
“(I) grew up with my dad and grandfather not getting along. Once my, when my grandmother died, our grandfather moved in with us and they (my father and grandfather) would never quite, you know, they would talk to me but wouldn’t talk to each other.”
They would talk to each other through you?
“I was a bit of the bone of contention often, and if you go back twenty-five years and you see the kitchen and the dinners, it would have been a lot like this boat where it would be my dad and grandfather, and I’d be in the middle. So that was something visually I wanted to capture. It felt like the right kind of memory and personal story to then convey a coming of age, a boy that has to find his own way when someone is telling him do this- no, no, no, no, no, do that”
Do they know they’re the inspiration for that story?
“My grandfather’s long passed, but, my dad has enjoyed the short and we’ve had some good chats about it.”
It (the short) was beautiful. It was adorable.
“Thank you. I definitely thought a lot. I have a four year old daughter and I thought a lot about, a sense of wonder, a sense of slowly showing cards and making people curious and kids curious. I thought about kids a lot in making it because, you know I enjoy even as an adult, things that make me feel like a kid a little bit. So I thought it’d be in first important to give a nice message to the little ones like trust your instinct. Just go for it. And then for us older guys and girls to feel a little bit like kids again for five minutes”
Here is a sneak peek of La Luna
La Luna is not to be missed; I would love to see La Luna made into a full-length film. The story is sweet and mesmerizing. The relationships portrayed are ones that everyone can relate to on many levels.
Brave and La Luna open together everywhere on June 22
I was a guest of Disney. All opinions expressed are my own.
This hauntingly sweet and moving short was written and directed by Enrico Casarosa. The group of bloggers that visited Pixar had the pleasure of sitting down with Enrico Casarosa. Here are some highlights of our interview with him.
When asked about the relationship portrayed between the grandfather, father and son in La Luna Enrico Casarosa gave us some insight into his upbringing and how it influenced the film
“(I) grew up with my dad and grandfather not getting along. Once my, when my grandmother died, our grandfather moved in with us and they (my father and grandfather) would never quite, you know, they would talk to me but wouldn’t talk to each other.”
They would talk to each other through you?
“I was a bit of the bone of contention often, and if you go back twenty-five years and you see the kitchen and the dinners, it would have been a lot like this boat where it would be my dad and grandfather, and I’d be in the middle. So that was something visually I wanted to capture. It felt like the right kind of memory and personal story to then convey a coming of age, a boy that has to find his own way when someone is telling him do this- no, no, no, no, no, do that”
Do they know they’re the inspiration for that story?
“My grandfather’s long passed, but, my dad has enjoyed the short and we’ve had some good chats about it.”
It (the short) was beautiful. It was adorable.
“Thank you. I definitely thought a lot. I have a four year old daughter and I thought a lot about, a sense of wonder, a sense of slowly showing cards and making people curious and kids curious. I thought about kids a lot in making it because, you know I enjoy even as an adult, things that make me feel like a kid a little bit. So I thought it’d be in first important to give a nice message to the little ones like trust your instinct. Just go for it. And then for us older guys and girls to feel a little bit like kids again for five minutes”
Here is a sneak peek of La Luna
La Luna is not to be missed; I would love to see La Luna made into a full-length film. The story is sweet and mesmerizing. The relationships portrayed are ones that everyone can relate to on many levels.
Brave and La Luna open together everywhere on June 22
I was a guest of Disney. All opinions expressed are my own.
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